for its present cross the united states as thousands of angry americans demand the corporate lobby be held accountable for the country's economic downturn. cloud of uncertainty hanging over greece as viewers own ministers away the next release of bailout funds desperately needed to keep the country clear of bankruptcy. and brown the glitz and glamour of high fashion catwalks to abuse a child laborers human rights groups blow the whistle on its back a stance caught in the industry which earns the government a fortune. in

the russian capital you're watching our t.v. with joshua welcome to the program from new york to boston to los angeles chicago and beyond the occupy wall street protest movement spreads rapidly across the united states thousands half lot of them from the streets demanding an end to the corporate influence in government that activists blame for america's economic turmoil in the big apple where the protests began hundreds have been arrested but the activists still plan war demonstrations which are supported by nationwide workers' unions and who are parties and associates who are going to met some americans who say civil disobedience is the only way to get their message across. taking the big apple by storm. by the hundreds. getting netted and pepper sprayed in the face. spending night and day on the far

from welcoming streets of the financial district. that's the price these demonstrators are paying to get their outrage across to those holding reins of financial and political power common americans who make up most of this country who don't have access to corporate power and the media don't have many options to get their voices heard those who treat specific steps fight for change in the west are largely getting ignored and marginalized this artist and activist has been arrested twice i didn't expect to be in it so if you get beat by the police it is the. incarcerated who always and always knows with a will to do good for both good cause and for this movement. ignored for the first two weeks of occupying wall street the peaceful movement started taking tougher measures by getting bigger and louder the only way to get the media to notice is to be disobedient. to the people who noticed. the mass arrests have

built up popular support for the movement. you know them for putting us through some for abuse because it's hope. you know it's bringing more work and some have sacrificed more than hours in jail to fight against wall street and many people have quit their jobs that have come here that's already having the corporate media we three into the camp outside either does not pay much attention here the sunday front pages of some of america's most read newspapers or ridicules both the form and the substance of the gathering it is equal parts but surely body odor and urine they're more concerned with. brainwashing people american idol sports drama and pretty much anything to serve as your traction but it did me important issue. right now this is a big board a notice where the corporate and political elite gets tougher than ever for those against the system to get attention. even some police officers are ready to admit

this protest is the way. the only of the build all the way to do what i imagine the occupy wall street movement promises to grow in the months to come and history shows that the voice of the people can't be neglected forever and says it sure can our party new york. all the latest and most gripping videos all the protests that rage in new york are available for you twenty four seven zero were you tube channel . four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images we're seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. fans of corporate protests across the u.s.

have attracted some unexpected sympathy from one of the richest people in the country prominent entrepreneur george soros at the massive bank bailouts have left some americans in the gutter i can understand their sentiments. frankly. because the. decision not to inject capital into the banks but to effectively. relieve them of their bad assets and then allow them to in their way of. gave the banks. profits and that allowed them to pay. bonuses as they see i can i can sympathize with them since. still ahead this hour here in our t.v. clash of the titans two russian billionaires take their cue to

a london court as exiled tycoon boris berezovsky sues former france ravana over a business deal gone sour. the eurozone has postponed the decision on the next release of bailout funds for cash strapped greece now after athens announced it would not be able to me dead containing targets greece desperately needs the next tranche of a billion euros to pay its bills if the money doesn't arrive by minute the country will not be able to pay its debts and may have to declare bankruptcy that's in spite of government efforts to adhere to tough. demands by bringing in highly unpopular as harry measures for weeks the country has been hit by angry public protests and strikes our correspondent sara firth has more details from athens. listening to him on syntagma square the most dramatic side of this economic crisis

in greece has been played out as time and again we've seen people running out of the parliament building the place just to get the still statesmanship they say to be unsettled we find ourselves back in a position where people now really are this old has been achieved by implementing these assassinations the government has just admitted the one's been able to me it's tough to get. the whole you is a million about what the implications of that will be because the government also brings a measure to thirty thousand of those. little made of the budget in the salary for a year. at the end of the year the possibility of dismissal rather of breaking the police would even get back next. year. if the country to stay late in the troika would it take care in the culture that maybe trying to hammer out the details of that now has to be such that. the only should

get about money because it. could be felt. in a place of this point is also about the rest of the year is a function indeed the global economy that is this legal not a lot of people only now but. will come up with realistic solutions to get the country out of the situation that has been criticism from some of the analysts we spoke to you hear a lot they're saying that we've seen job losses at least in the cut wages and intentions but these are people who no longer be able to pay cuts to people who is struggling to pay the bills and yet the government still seem to be such a solution plugged up the deficit in the budget so there are concerns will be about the practicalities of the new the. i think any of us are talking about the possibility of. a lot of public anger that people feel that their

lives are being put in a situation. that they can't live with thinking about what the usa need is going to be able to pull the country out of the situation. first reporting their economist tales of going on believes the problems stem from a lack of central fiscal authority and that the european central bank should step in and take the lead the problems go back. many years because countries throughout the eurozone. had large budget deficits that they were not supposed to be able to run under a monetary union but they were allowed to run and of course it's come back to i think each step along the way europeans have resisted moving to a central school authority common taxing and spending decisions. and they've resisted but they've done just enough to get the time raise the ante raise the amount apart but it's still not quite enough and the e.c.b.

right now is the only institution that has the potential to step in and fix things if they want to but it's a really difficult issue i mean the politicians. are worried about bailing out governments that haven't performed well. maybe as new rulers have named temporary cabin ministers to govern the country until it is fully secured meanwhile their forces continue to lay siege to the few remaining khadafi strongholds the national transitional council now controls most of the country but still faces fierce resistance in sheriff finally and pockets in the southern desert after a two day ceasefire to allow residents to leave and he see forces jammed it further attacks on a house of colonel's hometown syrup the red cross is one of a humanitarian disaster as the town is running out of medical supplies food and water one eyewitness to the fighting told r.t. that and signoff the forces are attacking civilian homes as a push to take over the city at any cost. after.

i don't i don't think we're going to be active out. here are you just a common sense of putting. it is one. i can keep in mind. because we've run it for you all the furniture you believe. it through you and you. can continue you cannot conceive. actively. wanting. author and journalist how she returns he says the only point of the libyan campaign is to divide the country's resources between nato allies. this is what nato are

involved in an action which is obviously contrary to the u.n. resolution which is supposedly mandated to go in and overthrow the government of gadhafi we're getting reports of electric torture electric shock torture being used by these revolutionaries who exactly are the people that are fighting nato because they may not like get their feet they may not like the nature of troops it's very interesting that the most advanced arsenal in the world of nato is six months on and they still haven't won the country this is all about the idea that these great powers as of old can divide up the resources and the future of the libyan people why they're quiet about it the media kind of got bored after the initial explosions and the so-called attack that they're not even reporting the bombing of hospitals in certain the former soviet republic it was back to stay as best known as one of the world's largest producers of cotton by while the industry brings the government a fortune because there are people remain stricken by poverty and authorities are

going to trial in our reports human rights groups say the cotton industry thrives on illegal child labor such is the fear in the eyes of these children they were picking not. only. that and. just they're not being. meanwhile on the other side of the world the produce harvested with illegal child labor is enjoying the glare of flushing cameras will not occur to you mother daughter of those bad president is presenting her new collection of forbes magazine ponders on how she's managed to be so commercially successful i graduated from harvard. so it's a really good score you know in terms of you know giving you great tools the tools

it was like a stone our children as young as seven to work an average of seventy hours a week instead of going to school and avocations not the only thing they're missing out on but no heating proper vats were drinking water. mothers are powerless some of them stood up for their kids protection they were arrested taken to cotton fields they would be forced to work in the day and would be mass raped at night. when the health forced child labor was because stanford uses around one million tons of cotton enough to make one billion t. shirts the course in a sold abroad except of the sixty plus retailers including why and they turned them not to buy was korten because the harvest is so abusive this boycott sends a message to those government that is leaving children is not or shake for good not

a karate move or was also is back it stands and best suited to the u.n. and the deputy foreign minister refutes the claims and she was also outraged when new york fashion week damns for a collection from the catwalks two weeks ago but human rights groups order. it was a terrible message for the fashion industry to be sending that they would lend a high profile platform to the senior official of one of the world's most repressive governments the government about sex. years ago engaged in the disproportionate use of force against mostly peaceful protesters in the eastern city of andijon under jan is the bloodiest chapter in president islam karimov student kates in office in two thousand five is morse is opened fire on an anti-government demonstration killing five thousand people are all the so-called dissidents jail sentences are common but why did you spend three years in prison for speaking out after his prosperous business was taken over by the president's

people to make. eremos family as an organized criminal all sectors of the economy profitable businesses are under his control if you there is a wiki leaks you'll see that the us ambassador calls karim daughter and murphy a princess but all this will stay just words world war continues in afghanistan. is an important ally that everyone will close eyes to his crime. but leaving egypt and tunisia where once important allies to however the arab spring showed just how quickly things can change so what today appears to be nothing more than a failed fashion show tomorrow become a failed state swept away by those silenced for too long. to integrate our t.v. . watching michael live from moscow coming up in the program

a cell phone video of patients in a russian psychiatric hospital sparks outrage at the lack of care for the mantle ill and raises questions of why it should be done to help them. two of russia's most prominent tycho's have begun a bitter legal battle in a london court the billionaire owner of chelsea football club is being sued by former associate boris berezovsky for a quarter five and a half billion dollars i did more and it has the details. well this is a really extraordinary story and we're talking about here on what's become to a person's richest man and as you say this is a case that involves around five and a half billion dollars we've got romano got a mortgage on the one hand he's become a household name in this country of course we all know him as the owner of charts but he's also the former governor of russ's gee what a great in and one of russia's most influential men and then the other hand we've got so close but it's not he who is also has it has a high political profile in moscow he was immediate local he was then russia and

was. awarded asylum here in the u.k. have made various attempts to extradite him in fact convict him hold investments in absentia so what's happened here is the result is he claims that the two were friends but that the friendship of the partnership collapsed when he says wealth and influence became more important for a whole which than loyalty have been he claims that i promote a sense he calms him out of more than three billion dollars by intimidation him basically they suggest that he met they met in france and he possibly physically intimidated him into selling shares in this sitting at an oil company that they had created together with a partner who are fraction of their market value and a similar thing then also happened which says in a russian aluminum company a result. which of course his lawyers are saying that that's all lies that is that

you know created any kind of intimidation took place there's no actual command station to show it now this is the case it's not going to be able with quickly we're seeing in the first months that it's also giving his evidence and they sent me an early november that abramovich will take the stand and say what he's got to say they were expecting this case to last at least twelve weeks if not longer so it's really brought a bottle between two enormous russian tycoon into the court here in london. reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world seventeen people were killed in separate gunfire and bomb attacks across iraq the deadliest assault happened almost two hundred kilometers west of baghdad when gunmen stormed the local government compound and two fourteen hostages the town's mayor and a local police chief were among those captured violence has reportedly increased in iraq as officials in the country prepare to take over after the proposed departure of u.s. troops by the end of twenty eleven. study police say gunmen have killed twelve

shiite muslims in a sectarian attack in the country's southwest officials say militants stop a bus on the outskirts of the city of quetta and opened fire killing a dozen people and wounding six local shiites walk the main highway to protest the killings and set fire to the bus that carried the day i don't want it to hospital. the a task comes as afghan leader hamid karzai criticised pakistan for playing a double sided game in the fight against terrorism with the karzai is due to arrive in india for key talks over strategic agreements on security and development aid visit follows a series of high profile attacks across the country many of which are blamed on pakistani militants india officials have already pledged two billion dollars to ghana stans needs. to the u.s. now we're emergency crews have almost completely contained a huge chemical plant fire south of the city of dallas it spread quickly through the facility causing

a chain of explosions more evacuated along with local residents and students from nearby schools the flames and fumes were so intense that crews had to withdraw for a while to let the blaze burn itself out officials say that initial air quality tests showed no evidence of dangerous terminations in the area. well a cell phone scandal involving patients. at a mental illness institution an award it handed as again expose the long running issue of psychiatric care and rochelle low wages and lack of reform or blame for the problem but a way out is much less clear even find some of the pictures and put all of his report distressing. scenes of psychiatric patients kissing and fighting each other in a mental health facility in siberia these images were shot by a hospital employee something which has angered local people. but you of course

it's horrible what on earth was he thinking those people are ill there are people with disabilities how can someone abuse them like this and just put up with their own internal investigation found ward attendant letting me get a book out of was the man behind the camera he's now being dismissed from his position but insists that he didn't force the patients to take part nevertheless questions have been raised regarding the ethics of filming ill people in this way showing people kissing and i turned on the camera and captured it i wanted to delete the footage but i guess i forgot and how the media got hold of the footage it is a mystery to me that others have leapt to the defense of book out of saying people have been too quick to point the finger of blame. you don't see the attendant provoking or forcing the patients to do all those things at footage merely features patient for the war or behaving this way all by themselves probably because of their mental disorders. for tendons and psychiatric hospitals like this one and not

paid very well in rural areas wages can be as low as one hundred dollars a month. is russia's representative to the world psychiatric association with over fifty years of experience he believes that low wages can draw the wrong people to work in hospitals. it's all a matter of how much you paid your lease their salaries are incredibly low so you can figure out for yourself what kind of people take that job is some cases they're shady individuals who seek to gratify their base instincts or to make money off the patients they tend to support right the wrongs in mental health care are under way however experts in the field believe that. stigma still attached to mental illness means that they don't receive enough help. the form of reform has been on and off since the late ninety's people make huge plans and it seems like the government allocates substantial funds but what comes out of it is still shut total washout

much of it is because psychiatry has always been a highly controversial issue. a case of blood to me a book is currently in the hands of law enforcement officials trying to determine if there's enough evidence to press ahead with criminal proceedings should be charged with abusing those in his care he could face up to three months in jail. party. you can find all our new stories and much more on our website r t v dot com here's what's on the line for you right now the i.m.f. sauber of a nine billion euro loan to beller france a sudden change in minutes where an oppositional euro was quickly released from jail. vice president dick cheney says he expects barack obama to explain himself and apologize to the bush administration over carbons he made in egypt more than two years ago. and on this day the world and the space age as the saudi

duty and why its first ever sport may. be back with a recap of today's made headlines in just a few minutes before that corrino well bring us up to date on what's happening in the world of business. welcome to our business update this hour economic uncertainty has investors staying away from risky assets and in russia it has people preparing for the worst russians are rushing to sell the ruble as it gets weaker business artie's marine acosta reports the situation is more a reflection of ill informed panic at the current economic environment. switching your savings from and national currency to a foreign one may seem like a sign of panic but that's not the case in russia since the ninety's when

hyperinflation made it impossible to put prices in rubles many people use the euros and he was dollars instead lots of russians still have their savings in foreign currencies partly because they don't trust the ruble stability and when there's any hints of financial turbulence people rush to convert which is what's happening now but analysts say that's making the situation worse the ruble weekend against the dollar at standing its worst quarterly the plushie nation in suv years it's lost fourteen percent in the past two months but it's nowhere near the two thousand and nine financial crisis when the russian currency it lost a third of its value last month that transfers reached their highest level in soo years equal to four and a half a billion dollars they had a brochure essential bank says that the ruble has been in a gradual devaluation for about two months and will bounce back soon others suggest

the problem is russia's lack of net capital inflows since the crisis began and to fully domestically fund the banking sector analysts are hoping the bank's tight monetary policy will prevent a further decline the bank has already spent over two billion dollars the bending the ruble and its repaired to go further it's a stabilizing the currency analysts we've spoken to say that if also was faced with a fast recession in europe or the united states it would come out on top because it has learned from its past mistakes. let's take a look at the markets now oil is losing ground after dropping to the lowest in more than a year on monday concerns about global demand topped a big reports on u.s. manufacturing and construction spending brant that is trading at one hundred dollars. one dollar one one hundred. all of a barrel while dummy's high is at around seventy six dollars a barrel. asian shares continue to point down or its financials and exporters are

losing their growing concerns about europe's debt troubles steelmakers are also notably weaker with j.f. holdings down four percent and nicole steel corporation losing two point eight percent in tokyo and hong kong shares up and gang steals on the stand and here in russia markets open lower on cheese day month in tuesday's morning session the r.t.s. a nice expose in point seven percent stocks ended monday's trading session deep in the red following their biggest quarterly decline since two thousand and eight. so business update and now we've been looking at how the markets are performing next hour such an event.